The Latest Breaking News from Samir Shah

The war in Gaza has been a notoriously controversial and difficult story to cover as a journalist. The Israeli government banned international journalists from the territory. At least 171 journalists and media workers in Gaza, Lebanon and the West Bank have been killed since the war began.

The Culture Secretary said it was ‘unacceptable’ that mainly vulnerable women were being prosecuted for not paying the licence fee.

Samir Shah tells MPs ‘people weren’t doing their job’ in relation to the film Gaza: How to Survive a Warzone

It comes after the BBC apologised for ‘serious flaws’

The session on Tuesday morning was already scheduled as part of the committee’s ongoing scrutiny into the work of the corporation.

The media regulator says it has ‘ongoing concerns about the nature and gravity’ of the failings related to Gaza: How To Survive A Warzone.

An internal review by the broadcaster into Gaza: How To Survive A Warzone found that the programme’s child narrator is the son of a Hamas official.

Bipolar disorder is a mental health condition that affects millions of people worldwide, yet it remains widely misunderstood.

BBC’s handling of the documentary had ‘serious flaws’, a review has found